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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
1
Service members and families receive frequent moves and visits as personnel return from furloughs and reassignment. Promotions and transfers include Camp Swift Majors Field and Hammer Field while overseas are noted for Sgt Glen Fleming and Lt Homer Craig. Additional reports tell of a German prison camp stay and Red Cross appeals for support.
Peter Vanderpol aged 103 at the Holland Old People's Home says to live long avoid smoking and drinking. Arpad Sabados 108 at St Benedict's Home for the Aged countered with a contrary habit of smoking cigars and pipes and drinking beer and wine.
Lt. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift told the District of Columbia Medical Society that medical science has advanced rapidly. A field hospital patient with insomnia was advised to eat before bed, only to hear the doctor recall past guidance and admit science has made enormous strides since then.
Washington reports that all frozen fruits and vegetables become ration-free starting Sunday to free storage for meat. April ration table preserves butter at sixteen points per pound and lowers some meat and processed foods. Canned peas drop to zero points, carrots No 2 cans to three points, and tomato juice sizes to fourteen ounces lose one point. OPA notes about 1.18 billion pounds of meat will be available in April versus 1.27 billion this month.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson says price controls are needed now to save the government and the public from rising costs and will aid reconversion and veterans. Senator Taft calls extending controls likely and necessary to remove injustices while enforcing them. James G. Patton of the National Farmers Union urges continuation and stricter OPA enforcement.
Congress is urged to remove daylight saving time and restore standard time nationwide while keeping current time zones. The measure cites farmer and worker complaints about late morning dew and mid afternoon quitting times under daylight time.
Edgar F. Kaiser testified before the Truman War Investigating Committee that design changes have virtually ended cracking on Liberty ships. Since July 1943, no serious or potentially serious failures have occurred, with only one minor instance found.
Three terms will expire for B. W. Newman Roy Blanton and John Reeves in the Whitewright Independent School District election held Saturday at the city building. Voters in the former District 42 now vote in Whitewright ISD after consolidation. An April 4 city election will choose a mayor for a two year term.
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson urged the House Military Committee that 3.5 million 4-F men aged 18 to 37 be assigned to essential industry or drafted into Army labor battalions. He outlined two options including national service for physically disqualified men or extension of selective service with occupational deferments for 4-F workers in war activity. If needed, those not in war work would be drafted into the enlisted reserve and directed to essential labor, with refusals leading to active Army service in labor units.
Washington liquor dealers acknowledge hardship cases drive top priority in scarce supply. Franklin G. Sartwell says wholesalers rush whisky to retailers for White House State Department and Congressional functions. He cites large orders for official entertaining as common hardship cases.
August Nunez a 36 year old fisherman trapper and father of eight including two sets of twins passed his preinduction physical Tuesday and was earmarked for the Army He has one good eye His family would get a 220 monthly allotment
If you cannot be glad for the good things you possess you may find solace in recognizing the many bad things you do not face. This reflection suggests gratitude by contrast highlighting life’s easier parts.
Soviet forces crossed the Prut at two points including a bridge not destroyed by Germans and rushed into Czernowitz outskirts. Kolomea fell upstream, 44 miles from Czernowitz, as the drive extended into Bessarabia and southern Ukraine with heavy German losses and a push toward the Kamenets Podolsk pocket.
The Office of Price Administration announced that red and blue ration stamps will no longer expire. The change aims to simplify rationing for 600,000 retailers and 40 million housewives, with 3 red meat and fat stamps becoming valid on the second Sunday and 5 blue canned food stamps on the first of each month.
Mrs. M. A. Mangrum celebrated her 96th birthday Sunday at her Whitewright residence with more than thirty relatives bringing well filled baskets to supplement her prepared meal. Born in Tennessee she moved to Texas 68 years ago and has lived in Whitewright for 51 years. She remains active and is among the town’s oldest citizens with several other 90 plus residents. Attendees included numerous Mangrums from Valley View Sherman Davis Grand Prairie Dallas and more.
Allied forces pull Indian Gurkha troops from Hangman's Hill and New Zealanders from Hill 202 near the Monastery as the Cassino offensive pauses. The steep eastern face of Monastery Hill remains in enemy hands and renewed assault is anticipated when action resumes.
The House passed a measure to expatriate men who fled the United States to avoid military service. The bill, sent to the Senate, targets draft evaders who crossed into Mexico near El Paso, barring reentry into the United States forever.
State Senator G. C. Morris of Greenville spoke on preserving government at the Rotary Club luncheon. Introduced by program chairman Russell Summers, Morris addressed Hunt Collin Rockwall Rains and Kauffman counties. Judge W. C. Parker visited. Roy Blanton led Friday's program.
Samuel Gibbs age 84 was acquitted of second degree murder in the death of Marcus Riddle age 94 after a November 13 dispute in Hamilton MO. Gibbs testified he used a cane during the confrontation and Riddle died fifteen days later.
Hailstones from marble to hen egg size battered Whitewright roofs and shattered windows. Ely northeast of town suffered heavier hail with roofs beaten into splinters. Pigs and chickens were killed by hailstones. Whitewright High School lost 140 panes. many claims filed with three insurers. adjusters working on settlements. Freeze Tuesday night to 26 degrees may hurt vegetation. fruit crop damage uncertain but fruit trees hold small fruit likely to drop.
A northeast Whitewright barn owned by C. J. Davenport and rented by J. R. Oliver burned at 3 a m. A feed stockpile, Jersey cattle, Jersey hogs, and Duroc hogs were inside. One Jersey bull and several pigs died. other hogs were badly burned and expected to die. Oliver had 500 dollars insurance on feed. no livestock insurance. Davenport had some barn insurance.
Three representatives of the state game fish and oyster commission from Austin and Denton met U S engineers in Denison to discuss stocking the Denison Dam reservoir with new fish. Planting would begin early next month after hatch size is reached, using a special boat to spread fish along the Texas bank for broad development.
Phillips Petroleum reports its Pecos County wildcat well has penetrated 15 009 feet in advancing toward deeper depths. This marks the deepest oil test to date, surpassing Continental No A 2 KCL’s 15 004 feet in Kern County California. The well lies twenty seven miles southwest of Fort Stockton in CSW SW section 11 block 101 TCCR survey and further depth remains undetermined.
Washington officials highlighted Rutin, a chemical isolated from flue cured tobacco, as fairly effective against capillary fragility seen in certain apoplexy and hemorrhage cases. Dr. O E May testified before the House Appropriations Committee that Rutin is related to hesperidin, both linked to such therapies. The Washington Monument cost $1,300,000.
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